Help with Categories and Subcategries

dutch9

I need some assistance. I have read a ton, and did a lot of trial and error.

My site is www.dutch9.com

I want to have categories and subcategoires...I want to 'fix' what I have now vs starting over.

On my home page there is a Portfolio page. Then on that page there are 6 more pages. I want to be able to when you click on Portraits, another page will have all of my portraits: Kids, Famlies, Seniors, etc.

I am not sure how to do this and not mess anything up. PLEASE help!!

Thanks SmugMuggers!

rnrjosh

Hi,

You can get your categories and subcategories set up quickly and easily. First you want to create come custom categories and subcategories. You can create these in the Customize tab of your Control Panel. You'll want to create a category called Portraits, and subcategories called Kids, Seniors, Families, etc.

The next step is to assign your existing galleries to the new categories/subcategories. Click the Customize button under each gallery, and select the appropriate category/subcategory. Don't forget to click Save :-)

The last step is to change to the category view. Click the Portfolio link on your navbar, and click the Categories link in the upper right to change to the categories view. You should now see your Portraits category, and your subcategories will show when you click Portraits if you have set everything up correctly.

I hope this helps, and here's our help page on categories if you need further help:

http://www.smugmug.com/help/upload-photo

dutch9

Thanks!
Thanks Josh, this looks like the perfect tutorial...thanks a million!

dutch9

I know this is supposed to be simple!! I am just not getting it AT ALL!

I am not sure why it's doing double.

Ryan.. > Portraits > Families > Families

and I want it to be

Ryan...> Portraits > Families
Ryan...> Portraits > Kids
Ryan...> Portraits > Seniors
HELP!!!

www.dutch9.com

rnrjosh wrote:

Hi,

You can get your categories and subcategories set up quickly and easily. First you want to create come custom categories and subcategories. You can create these in the Customize tab of your Control Panel. You'll want to create a category called Portraits, and subcategories called Kids, Seniors, Families, etc.

The next step is to assign your existing galleries to the new categories/subcategories. Click the Customize button under each gallery, and select the appropriate category/subcategory. Don't forget to click Save :-)

The last step is to change to the category view. Click the Portfolio link on your navbar, and click the Categories link in the upper right to change to the categories view. You should now see your Portraits category, and your subcategories will show when you click Portraits if you have set everything up correctly.

I hope this helps, and here's our help page on categories if you need further help:

http://www.smugmug.com/help/upload-photo

jfriend

dutch9 wrote:

I know this is supposed to be simple!! I am just not getting it AT ALL!

I am not sure why it's doing double.

Ryan.. > Portraits > Families > Families

and I want it to be

Ryan...> Portraits > Families
Ryan...> Portraits > Kids
Ryan...> Portraits > Seniors
HELP!!!

www.dutch9.com

You have a gallery named Families in a subcategory named Families in a category named Portraits. You should get rid of the sub-category so it's just a gallery named Families in a category named Portraits. Just go to the gallery options and pick None for the sub-category.